Sr Director, R&D Data Science - Head of Data Strategy & Products - TA Focus

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal.

Job Function: Data Analytics & Computational Sciences

Job Sub Function: Data Science

Job Category: People Leader

All Job Posting Locations: Zug, Switzerland

Job Description:

Johnson and Johnson Innovative Medicine (J&J IM), a pharmaceutical company of Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Sr Director, R&D Data Science – Head of Data Strategy & Products – TA Focus . This position has a primary location of Titusville, NJ but is also open to Spring House, PA; Cambridge, MA; San Francisco, CA or Zug, Switzerland. The position requires 25% travel.

Our expertise in Innovative Medicine is informed and inspired by patients, whose insights fuel our science-based advancements. Visionaries like you work on teams that save lives by developing the medicines of tomorrow.

Join us in developing treatments, finding cures, and pioneering the path from lab to life while championing patients every step of the way.

Position Summary:

The “Head of Data Strategy & Products – TA Focus” leads development of Data Strategy and the strategy, design, and delivery of user-centric, reusable data products that enable delivery of Data Science and AI solutions for TA Discovery and drug development.

This leader will be managing 3 specialized sub-teams: Data Strategy & Products for Oncology TA, Data Strategy & Products for Immunology TA, and Data Strategy & Products for Neuroscience TA. This leader will be implementing use cases to unify data across domains, scale semantic/knowledge and embedding services, and institutionalize data governance.

A core responsibility includes developing a TA Ontology as the semantic backbone of TA data, aligned with the broader strategy of integration of R&D data landscape. The ontology serves as a foundational layer for data product standardization, reuse, and interoperability.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop data strategy as an ongoing program of improvement, partnering with Data Science TA teams in aligning to business needs and priorities of TAs
• Defines and maintains a roadmap for data products supporting TAs
• Embeds product thinking, agile delivery, and FAIR data principles across the product lifecycle
• Leads the development and governance of a TA Ontology to enable semantic consistency across TA domains
• Contributes to shared governance of vocabularies, taxonomies, and semantic layers that enable knowledge reasoning, search, and graph-based automation
• Builds and leads a cross-functional team
• Establishes agile delivery processes, value tracking metrics, and product lifecycle governance
• Defines and tracks KPIs
• Communicates product vision, roadmaps, and value realization to stakeholders

Qualifications:

• PhD or Masters degree in life sciences, informatics, natural sciences, data science, or related discipline
• 10+ years in data platform/data engineering/governance leadership, with significant experience in pharma/biotech R&D or regulated domains
• Strong business acumen in pharmaceutical and /or Data Science, drug discovery and data product development/data science solution space
• Track of records working with high throughput screening data, omics, chemical and biological data for building data science solutions at scale
• Prior leadership of multi-disciplinary teams and vendor/partner ecosystems
• Strong record of delivering business-critical data solutions
• Experience in data product design and semantic modeling
• Familiarity with ontological frameworks, metadata governance, and industry standards
• Strong working experience with pre-clinical data, clinical data and real-world data is required
• Track of record in building data strategy to making business impact
• Strong background in data analysis, solution development and architecture
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and written skills
• Energy, enthusiasm and drive to create a positive working relationship with the business and the team
• Experience in managing and leading a team, showing understanding of different cultures to achieve global business objectives
• Ability to multi-task, incorporating good organizational skills and flexibility, to prioritize work and deliver the maximum business value
• Ability to build strong networks across the business to develop sponsorship at all levels of the business
• Ability to influence and drive change in a complex organizational environment
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess and manage data-related risks

Leadership Competencies

• Strategic & Systems Thinking • Operational Excellence • Governance Mindset
• People & Culture Builder • Outcome Orientation • Risk & Compliance Stewardship

Johnson & Johnson is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by federal, state or local law.

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